Voted number one on AllClear's list of the world's best historical homes is The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in the elite summer retreat of Newport, Rhode Island.

The Breakers was commissioned by prominent New York tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1893 and was complete in 1895. The Renaissance Revival-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and comprises 70 rooms over an enormous 138,300 square feet (12,850sqm).

The largest and most opulent of the Newport 'summer cottages', the mansion was lavishly decorated in the European style, designed to host and impress society’s most elite members. Today, it is also Rhode Island’s most popular attraction.

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